Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 702 · Decided 6 May 2025
Ramkirat Munilal Goud v. State of Maharashtra ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 702 · [2025] 6 S.C.R. 513
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1954/2022
- Decided
- 6 May 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BNSS; IPC Section 302, 363, 376(2), 201; CrPC; POCSO Act
Headnote
Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court upholding the conviction and death sentence of the appellant for causing rape and murder of a child aged 3 years and 9 months. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 363, 376(2), 201 of a child - Prosecution case that gruesome rape and murder of a child at the tender age of 3 years and 9 months - Dead body of child recovered from pond located at a distance of one kilometer from appellant's house - Prosecution case based on circumstantial evidence-last
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